Crushing Colonialism
Los Perfumados is a pictorial series born at the crossroads of artistic creation, field research, and ritual experience.
“Ancestral Answer Key” is a poem about a young Afro-Indigenous girl who asks difficult questions about who she is and where she comes from. Her mother is Hidatsa.
In Yoruba spiritual belief, every person on earth has an unseen spiritual double—In the town of Igboora, located in Oyo State in southwest Nigeria, twins hold a unique and celebrated place in the community.
As Haudenosaunee people, we define the Indigenous women-led movement of rematriation as “Returning the Sacred to the Mother.” Across Turtle Island (so-called “North America”) and around the world, Indigenous women are reclaiming traditional teachings and fostering healing within our families, clan systems, Nations, and the world.
“When I say I’m Nigerian…” begins Pendo George, an artisan from Igarra in Edo State, in western Nigeria, “the response is always the same: ‘Yoruba? Hausa? Igbo?'” He shrugs. “Then they look away—because I’m none of those.” His words capture a quiet ache that ripples across the country: the experience of being unseen, unheard, and unacknowledged in a country with over 400 ethnic groups, but one narrative.
My grandmother passed away when I was 16 years old. It was a devastating loss and my first real grief. I was close to her, and her death was unexpected.
Crushing Colonialism is inviting you to participate in a campaign this October, linking Palestine and disability justice, through organizing a grassroots/community screening of the new documentary film, Severed (2025). The campaign will begin with a virtual screening and panel discussion on October 5, 2025, at 3 PM ET.
